Banter Studio

In January 2007, I crocheted a blanket for my former father-in-law for his birthday. It was a lovely camouflage green. Fast forward to this past winter. I was spending most of my off-time in my room in the basement of a house, freezing, so I crocheted a lot to keep my fingers moving. I had [...]

I’m slowly processing photos and finding some I want to feature here. Today’s photo was a ’surprise’, so to speak. I knew Sam was practicing while I was in the office/studio, so I snuck around the corner and snapped a picture. He looked up right after, and made a face at me.
Sadly, the guitar has [...]

Well, Little Cheeky Ninja Kitty (as we like to call her) does not look happy. Or it’s passive disinterest. In any event, I took this shirt out of the closet and it’s a scoopneck, so I draped it over Dot. She sat still under it for Sam to come see, and for me to go [...]

Another shot of the ducks on the shore of the pond at our apartment complex. Click the photo to see it full size.
By the way, I took this shot from our balcony, at least 50-75 feet away.
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The other night I was laying on the floor, trying to take pictures of Kato (none of which turned out), and Dot came investigating. I floated a Wal-mart bag at her and she, of course, was interested. As I was about to snap a photo, she spied the strap on the camera and reached out [...]

Sam and I live in a large apartment complex surrounding a large (likely man-made) pond. Thus, there are a lot of birds, ducks, turtles and fish. I happened to catch this shot of four baby ducks and two adult ducks heading across the pond.
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Dot has a fascination with plastic bags. Sam says she likes to jump up on the table to see what we bring home, but I think it’s because we bring things home in plastic bags and she wants to play with them. Recently Dot was up on the drawing table and noticed the black garbage [...]

In April, Sam noticed a group of new baby ducklings in the pond outside our building. This photo shows them several weeks later. Click the photo to enlarge.
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One of Dot’s favorite pasttimes is to sit on the bed. This also puts her in the middle of the action when Sam and I fold laundry. At some point, we open the sock drawer to put away Sam’s socks and Dot will eye the dresser, make the leap to the top, and then climb [...]

Here’s Kato, sitting on one of her favorite spots: the back of the love seat.
If you’ve noticed there are more photos of Dot than of Kato, it is because Kato does this most of the time. Her other position is on her back, a photo will pop up here one of these days (after I [...]